On 10/17/06, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have a client who has mysteriously damaged a whole bunch of files. > Basically, there are 2300 files in a directory and sub-directories, > which are comma delimited. Somehow a bunch of files had an extra comma > added at the end of some lines. What I need to do is to remove double > commas ",," from the _end_ of some lines in each file (there are double > commas in the middle of the line that must be untouched). > > This screams sed to me, but I am missing something, since I cannot seem > to find the regex incantation that will find two commas at the end only. > > It seemed simple, but then I am used to vim syntax (:%s/,,$/,/g), which > normally also works in sed for me. > > Any help would be appreciated.
-bash-2.05b$ cat > test.txt test1,, test2,, test3,,test4,, -bash-2.05b$ cat test.txt | sed "s/,,$/,/" test1, test2, test3,,test4, That works here... of course, it isn't writing it back to the file in this case. If you want to play with fire, you can do: `sed -i "" -e "s/,,$/,/" files` This will edit files in place without making a backup (replace brackets with an extension to make a backup of each file) Dunno about recursing into directories, might need to pair `sed` with `find` for that. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
